But it wasn’t always this way. Before the age of print, Torah texts were scarce, fragile, and painstakingly copied by hand. Even the most foundational works, such as Rashi’s commentary, circulated in ...

What do we learn from Rashi? Several daya ago we commemorated the passing of Rashi, the greatest Torah commentator, who lived in France. We can learn much Torah from him, of course, but we should also ...

There are points in our lives where after years of striving and struggles, we yearn for an oasis in time to rest .One craves the time to enjoy achievements, family and wisdom gleaned from life's ...

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin presents Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with first-ever Bible printed with Rashi commentary. Mossad director Yossi Cohen is on right. This past week ...

Born in France in 1040, Rashi, whose birth name was Shlomo Yitzchaki, was a rabbi and writer who lived in Worms, Germany. His commentary on the Babylonian Talmud has been a standard part of the Talmud ...

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The gavel came down on impressive auctions of Judaica last month, including the record-setting sale of a rare biblical commentary dated 1457. That Italian manuscript of writings by Solomon Ben Issac, ...

“Anyone who has never read the entire Chumash with Rashi is simply not Jewishly literate,” said Rabbi David Hartman, with whom I was studying 14 years ago at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

With the school year about to begin, concerned pastors, parents and pundits around the country are once again deluging school boards and legislatures with demands to incorporate the biblical creation ...